Westward Trade doesn’t have stalls, sire.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and…

— Tim Wise

“I am, a shadow that grows longer as the sun moves, drawn out on a thread of wonder. If I bear burdens they begin…

— Denise Levertov

Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.

— Ross Douthat

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

— John Quincy Adams

I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

“We go eastward to realize history, and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I vanish westward into smoke.”

— Geoff Page

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

— Henry David Thoreau

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land.…

— David Mamet

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

— Frank Waters

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

— Frank Waters

Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the…

— Cynthia Ozick

Westward, ever westward.

— Henry Wells

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from…

— Henry David Thoreau